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A Christian country?: The CofE shows us why not to cave to the spirit of the age

recently the times newspaper reported on the findings of its survey of 1,200 clerics of the church of england. among the dispiriting results...
The Catholic Herald

Seriously ill teenager dies fighting mental competence ruling in UK court

a 19-year-old woman with a rare disease has died during a legal fight to circumvent a ruling that she was not competent to make decisions ab...
The Catholic Herald

Vatican and China discuss resumption of grain exports from Russia and Ukraine

pope francis’s peace envoy has met government officials in china to discuss how to restart a deal to allow ukraine and russia to export grai...
Crux Staff

Church rushes to Morocco's aid after devastating earthquake

yaoundè, cameroon – as morocco continues to struggle to cope with its worst earthquake to strike a major urban centre in a century, which so...
Ngala Killian Chimtom

How the 60s paved the way for today's culture wars

philip larkin, in  annus mirabilis , tells us that:   “sexual intercourse began/in nineteen sixty-three/(which was rather lat...
Anthony McCarthy

'Alert and conscious' 19-year-old put on death pathway against her will

a judge has ruled that an “alert and conscious” adult woman does not have mental capacity because she disagrees with doctors who want to put...
Simon Caldwell

Outrage in Brazil after archbishop gives communion to Muslim sheikh

são paulo – during a funeral mass of a major figure in the brazilian church on august 28, a muslim sheikh ended up receiving communion, spar...
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope dismisses critics of Synod as 'ideological' with an 'incapacity for dialogue'

aboard the papal plane – pope francis warned against the influence of what he called “ideology” on an upcoming synod of bishops at the vatic...
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Francis welcomed to Mongolia: Chinese Christians make perilous journey

rome – a group of chinese catholics were so thrilled to see the pope close to home that they invented excuses to make the trip to mongolia, ...
Elise Allen

Kidnapped Nigerian priest and seminarian released by captors

a priest and a seminarian kidnapped in nigeria’s middle belt have been released after three weeks in captivity. fr paul sanogo and brother m...
The Catholic Herald